There are many aspects of maintaining a Healthy, happy relationshipBut how your relationship affects your emotional well -being is also important. Research has indicated The fact that personal relationships are mostly where people have their meaning in life – defined by researchers how people “understand, understand their life, make meaning or meaning”. But it was not clear what was about relationships that help people find meaning.
A recently carried out study brings us closer to an answer: Research at McGill University, published in the Journal of personality and social psychologyshows that couples who have a common worldview (on the same side about their understanding of the world) experienced less uncertainty and found more sense in their lives.
The researchers carried out five studies with almost 1,300 adults in the USA and Canada and bundled data from laboratory tasks, online surveys and experiments. They tested the hypothesis that experiencing a feeling of a common reality with a close partner reduces uncertainty about their own environment, which in turn strengthens the importance of meaning and life. For example, they found that the healthcare staff during the Covid 19 pandemic and black Americans during the demonstrations of black life in the Covid 19 pandemic and black Americans feel less uncertainty and more meaning than the understanding of their partner for the world agreed to their own.
“Our approach was different from previous work on how relationships promote the meaning, which tends to concentrate on aspects such as belonging or support” Press release. “We have planned to investigate whether the exchange of thoughts, ideas and concerns about the world could improve the meaning with a romantic partner by reducing uncertainty about our own environment.”
What does a common reality look like with your partner
If you have this common perception of reality with your partner according to the study, you can appear your reality and at the same time confirm your perspective. The more experiences you share with your partner, the closer you can share a worldview.
“When couples accumulate common experiences, common feelings, goals and memories, they develop a generalized common reality,” said the high -ranking author John Lydon, psychology professor at MCGill University, in the press release. “This differs from simply feeling close or supported. It is not only ‘my partner gets me’, it is’ we understand it.”
Enestrom pointed out that a common reality can arise from both oriented experiences and from interpretations.
“The common reality can, for example, form when a couple sees a horror film together and one or both partners that they both find it scary,” she said. “But the common reality does not necessarily require common experiences. A partner can describe a stressful event he has experienced, and if the other partner sees it the same way, this can also promote the common reality.”
The more common reality experiences you gain, the more likely it is that you will build up a common understanding of the world in general, she explained. Since couples get closer through a common reality, the researchers also observed a greater sense of importance in life, where individuals have a strong feeling of purpose, what Studies show Can lead to better coping, more luck and improved health results.
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